noun, plural moneys, monies. 1. any circulating medium of exchange, including coins, , and demand deposits. 2. . 3. gold, silver, or other metal in pieces of convenient form stamped by public authority and issued as a medium of exchange and measure of value. 4. any article or substance used as a medium of exchange, measure of wealth, or means of payment, as checks on demand deposit or cowrie. 5. a particular form or denomination of currency. 6. . 7. capital to be borrowed, loaned, or invested: mortgage money. 8. an amount or sum of money: Did you bring some money? 9. wealth considered in terms of money: She was brought up with money. 10. moneys, Also, monies. Chiefly Law. pecuniary sums. 11. property considered with reference to its pecuniary value. 12. pecuniary profit: not for love or money.adjective 13. of or relating to money. 14. used for carrying, keeping, or handling money: Have you seen my little money purse? 15. of or relating to capital or finance: the money business. Idioms 16. for one’s money, Informal. with respect to one’s opinion, choice, or wish: For my money, there’s nothing to be gained by waiting. 17. in the money, Informal.

18. make money, to make a profit or become rich: You’ll never make money as a poet. 19. on the money, Informal.

Also, right on the money. 20. put one’s money where one’s mouth is, Informal. to prove the truth of one’s words by actions or other evidence; demonstrate one’s sincerity or integrity: Instead of bragging about your beautiful house, put your money where your mouth is and invite us over to see it. /ˈmʌnɪ/noun 1. a medium of exchange that functions as legal tender 2. the official currency, in the form of banknotes, coins, etc, issued by a government or other authority 3. a particular denomination or form of currency: silver money 4. property or assets with reference to their realizable value 5. (formal) (pl) moneys, monies. a pecuniary sum or income 6. an unspecified amount of paper currency or coins: money to lend 7. for one’s money, in one’s opinion 8. (informal) in the money, well-off; rich 9. (informal) money for old rope, profit obtained by little or no effort 10. money to burn, more money than one needs 11. one’s money’s worth, full value for the money one has paid for something 12. put money into, to invest money in 13. put money on, to place a bet on 14. put one’s money where one’s mouth is, See mouth (sense 19)adjective 15. best, most valuable, or most eagerly anticipated: the money shot, the money note n.

mid-13c., “coinage, metal currency,” from Old French monoie “money, coin, currency; change” (Modern French monnaie), from Latin moneta “place for coining money, mint; coined money, money, coinage,” from Moneta, a title or surname of the Roman goddess Juno, in or near whose temple money was coined; perhaps from monere “advise, warn” (see monitor (n.)), with the sense of “admonishing goddess,” which is sensible, but the etymology is difficult. Extended early 19c. to include paper money.

It had been justly stated by a British writer that the power to make a small piece of paper, not worth one cent, by the inscribing of a few names, to be worth a thousand dollars, was a power too high to be entrusted to the hands of mortal man. [John C. Calhoun, speech, U.S. Senate, Dec. 29, 1841]

I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is the symbol. [Henry Ford]

To make money “earn pay” is first attested mid-15c. Highwayman’s threat your money or your life first attested 1841. Phrase in the money (1902) originally meant “one who finishes among the prize-winners” (in a horse race, etc.). The challenge to put (one’s) money where (one’s) mouth is is first recorded 1942, American English. money-grub “one who is sordidly intent on amassing money” is from 1768. The image of money burning a hole in someone’s pocket is attested from 1520s.

Of uncoined money the first notice we have is in the history of Abraham (Gen. 13:2; 20:16; 24:35). Next, this word is used in connection with the purchase of the cave of Machpelah (23:16), and again in connection with Jacob’s purchase of a field at Shalem (Gen. 33:18, 19) for “an hundred pieces of money”=an hundred Hebrew kesitahs (q.v.), i.e., probably pieces of money, as is supposed, bearing the figure of a lamb. The history of Joseph affords evidence of the constant use of money, silver of a fixed weight. This appears also in all the subsequent history of the Jewish people, in all their internal as well as foreign transactions. There were in common use in trade silver pieces of a definite weight, shekels, half-shekels, and quarter-shekels. But these were not properly coins, which are pieces of metal authoritatively issued, and bearing a stamp. Of the use of coined money we have no early notice among the Hebrews. The first mentioned is of Persian coinage, the daric (Ezra 2:69; Neh. 7:70) and the ‘adarkon (Ezra 8:27). The daric (q.v.) was a gold piece current in Palestine in the time of Cyrus. As long as the Jews, after the Exile, lived under Persian rule, they used Persian coins. These gave place to Greek coins when Palestine came under the dominion of the Greeks (B.C. 331), the coins consisting of gold, silver, and copper pieces. The usual gold pieces were staters (q.v.), and the silver coins tetradrachms and drachms. In the year B.C. 140, Antiochus VII. gave permission to Simon the Maccabee to coin Jewish money. Shekels (q.v.) were then coined bearing the figure of the almond rod and the pot of manna.

[non-mawr-uh l, -mor-] /nɒnˈmɔr əl, -ˈmɒr-/ adjective 1. having no relation to morality; neither nor immoral: It was a completely nonmoral problem and involved only judgments as to efficacy. /nɒnˈmɒrəl/ adjective 1. not involving or related to morality or ethics; neither moral nor immoral

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